Sacred Sites - Teotihuacan

The place where people become gods. When I came to visit Teotihuacan for the second time, I couldn't help but be struck by its mythological power. It was constructed with temples to honor the thirteen full moon cycles, with two pyramids of worship, one for the sun and the other for the moon with adjacent the housing for the shamans. Generations layered constructions upon previous constructions. While the paintings that covered the stone works have eroded, the imagistic legacies stir theory and imagination on these pre-conquest pre-Aztec peoples that were advanced enough to have irrigation and plumbing systems long before other societies. The profile of the mountains were mirrored in the constructions. So considered to relate to the above, around and below, were they. Yet when the Spanish came, they assume this place was a citadel or fortress against enemies instead of a sacred site. The mystery was what led these ancient people to the awareness that they had to abandon it. So often we visit these places as tourists but to visit this place with reverence, a chance to commune with the sacredness, with the imagination of these people, starts to become a little more tangible.